Goodness, it’s been a while since I added a blog post. We do have a lot of new content that’s been added, and some new great functionality, as well — I need to write something about that, since it is its own big step forward.

But for now, let’s list the content that has been added to the ShipIndex database since May:

• Bauer, K. Jack, Stephen S. Roberts. Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775-1990: Major Combatants. New York: Greenwood Press, 1991.
• Cowden, James E., John O. C. Duffy. The Elder Dempster: Fleet History, 1852-1985. Coltishall, UK: Mallett and Bell, 1986.
• Curry, Jane. The River’s in My Blood: Riverboat Pilots Tell Their Stories. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1985.
• Farquhar, Ian J. The Tyser Legacy : a History of the Port Line and its Associated Companies. Wellington, N.Z.: Wellington New Zealand Ship and Marine Society, 2006. 
• Forster, Honore. The South Sea Whaler. An Annotated Bibliography of Published Historical, Literary and Art Material Relating to Whaling in the Pacific Ocean in the Nineteenth Century. Fairhaven, MA: Edward J. Lefkowicz, 1985.
• Henderson, Graeme. Unfinished Voyages: Western Australian Shipwrecks, 1622 – 1850 (2nd. Edition). Crawley: University of Western Australia Press, 2007.
• Hurst, Alex A. Square-riggers – The Final Epoch. 1921-1958. Sussex, U.K.: Teredo Books, 1972.
• Jensen, John Odin. Stories from the Wreckage: a Great Lakes Maritime History Inspired by Shipwrecks. Madison, WI: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2019.
• Johnston, William Cameron. The Seabound Coast : the Official History of the Royal Canadian Navy, 1867-1939. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2010.
• Kludas, Arnold. Great Passenger Ships of the World. Volume 1: 1858-1912. Cambridge: Patrick Stephens, 1976.
• Kludas, Arnold, and Charles Hodges. Great Passenger Ships of the World. Volume 2: 1913-1923. Cambridge: Patrick Stephens, 1976.
• Kludas, Arnold, and Charles Hodges. Great Passenger Ships of the World. Volume 3: 1924-1935. Cambridge: Patrick Stephens, 1976.
• Kludas, Arnold, and Charles Hodges. Great Passenger Ships of the World. Volume 4: 1936-1950.  Cambridge: Patrick Stephens, 1977.
• Kludas, Arnold, and Charles Hodges. Great Passenger Ships of the World. Volume 5: 1951-1976. Cambridge: Patrick Stephens, 1977.
• Kludas, Arnold, and Keith Lewis. Great Passenger Ships of the World. Volume 6: 1977-1986. Wellingborough, UK: Patrick Stephens, 1986.
• Nesdale, Iris. The Corvettes: Forgotten Ships of The Royal Australian Navy. Australia: Iris Nesdale, 1982.
• Tall, J. J. Submarines & Deep-sea Vehicles. San Diego, CA: Thunder Bay, 2002.

There’s more to add soon, and maybe enough to get us over indexes to 1000 resources in the database, before the end of the year. We’ll see!

We have a lot of files still left to process, and we’re going to be adding a lot of new files, too, soon. So, as always, there’s more content coming soon. If you know of a title whose index should be added to the database, please do let me know, at comments (at) shipindex (dot) org — now’s a great time to get some more titles on the list, so they’ll be processed soon!

The ShipIndex database continues to grow: according to this screen grab from our home page, we’re just 126 citations away from 3.5 million citations!

This is certainly a new record for ShipIndex.org content, but it has taken a long time to get here. Several years ago, I had to remove some 380,000 citations from the database, because the online resource containing those citations disappeared. But we’ve been adding lots more content since then, and we’ve recovered and gotten beyond where we’d been.

Here’s content that has been added since the last list I posted. Lots more is in process, as always.

• Gardiner, Robert. Conway’s All the World’s Fighting Ships, 1906-1921. London: Conway Maritime Press, 1997.
• Naval Marine Archive. The Canadian Collection: Ships Database. Picton, ON: Naval Marine Archive, 2018-.
• Nicholls, Bob. Bluejackets and Boxers: Australia’s Naval Expedition to the Boxer Uprising. London: Allen & Unwin, 1986.
• Nicholson, Ian Hawkins. Shipping Arrivals and Departures: Tasmania. Volume I, 1803-1833, Parts I, II, and III. Canberra, NSW: Roebuck Society, 1983.
•  Nicholson, Ian Hawkins. Shipping Arrivals and Departures: Tasmania. Volume II, 1834-1842 (Parts I, II and III) and Gazetteer of Tasmanian Shipping 1803-1842 (Part IV). Canberra, NSW: Roebuck Society, 1985.
• Rigby, Nigel, Pieter van der Merwe, and Glyndwr Williams. Pioneers of the Pacific: Voyages of Exploration, 1787-1810. Fairbanks, Alaska: University of Alaska Press, 2005.
• Rogers, Ernest Elias, Nathaniel Shaw. Connecticut’s Naval Office at New London During the War of the American Revolution, Including the Mercantile Letter Book of Nathaniel Shaw, Jr. New London, Conn.: New London County Historical Society, 1933.
• Shipping and Shipbuilding Research Trust. Tees Built Ships: Ships Built on the River Tees, Hartlepool, and Whitby.  Shipping and Shipbuilding Research Trust, 2014-.
• Smith, Myron J. The American Navy, 1789-1860: A Bibliography. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1964.
• Smith, Myron J. The American Navy, 1865-1918: A Bibliography. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1974.
• Smith, Myron J. The American Navy, 1918-1941: A Bibliography. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1974.
• Syme, Marten A. Shipping Arrivals and Departures: Victorian Ports. Vol. I 1798-1845. Melbourne, Victoria: Roebuck Society, 1984.
• Syme, Marten A. Shipping Arrivals and Departures: Victorian ports. Vol. II 1846-1855. Melbourne, Victoria: Roebuck Society, 1987.
• Ward, R. Gerard, Ernest Stanley Dodge. American Activities in the Central Pacific, 1790-1870 : A History, Geography and Ethnography Pertaining to American Involvement and Americans in the Pacific Taken From Contemporary Newspapers, etc. Ridgewood, NJ: Gregg Press, 1967.
• Wood, William Charles Henry. All Afloat: A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways. Toronto: Glasgow, Brook & Co., 1920.

Several titles are worth particular attention. The four volumes published by the Roebuck Society are especially valuable for southern Pacific research, but they’re tricky to use. I wrote a blog post about just those volumes last week, and more titles from the Roebuck Society will be added over time.

Ward’s collection of notes from newspapers, about American activities in the central Pacific, is also interesting — the 7 volume set is remarkable in its own right, printed on heavy paper and with a volume of illustrations and maps, if I remember correctly. It’s organized geographically, which makes finding the entries a bit of a challenge. It’s also probably not a particularly common title, but if it mentions the ship you’re researching, those citations from contemporary newspapers are going to be pretty valuable!

I plan to write a brief blog post about the effects of low technology on this data, regarding the Naval Marine Archive, in the next week or two.

As always, let us know if you have titles to suggest we add.

The ShipIndex data team has been hard at work over the past six to eight weeks, and we’ve added a lot more data. A full list of all content that’s been added since the last update appears below.

Some are short books, or brief websites, but they’ve got unique content you won’t find elsewhere. Some, like the Conway’s volumes, are much longer and have thousands of entries in them. All kinds of content has been added, but we always welcome suggestions for more!

Two weeks ago, we went to the National Library of Scotland, and collected content there that we couldn’t find elsewhere. That’s always a thrill. That content still needs to be processed, so it’s not in the database yet, but will be, eventually. There’s a benefit in knowing that a resource has some information that might be useful to you, even if it’s hard to get, because then you at least know that it’s out there, and you can request it through interlibrary loan. Or, if you travel often, you can use WorldCat to determine which libraries own it, and then when you go near one of those libraries, you have a reason to visit. I, for one, was thrilled to have a reason to add a new library card, from the NLS, to my collection!

Now, here’s a list of the content added since the last update:

• The Association for Gaff Rig Sailing Boat Register. South Woodham Ferrers, Essex, UK: Association for Gaff Rig Sailing, 2013.
• Bell, Archibald Colquhoun. A History of the Blockade of Germany and the Countries Associated with Her in the Great War, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey, 1914-1918. London: Imperial War Museum, Department of Printed Books, 2015.
• Berry, Sterling P. Great Lakes Vessel History: The Vessel Histories of Sterling Berry. Warren, MI: 2019.
• Blake, Robert, and J.R. Powell. The Letters of Robert Blake (Navy Records Society, Vol. 76). Greenwich: Navy Records Society, 1937.
• Bullocke, J.G. The Tomlinson Papers: Selected from the Correspondence and Pamphlets of Captain Robert Tomlinson, R.N., & Vice-Admiral Nicholas Tomlinson (Navy Records Society, Vol. 74). London: Navy Records Society, 1935.
• Chesneau, Robert. Conway’s All the World’s Fighting Ships, 1922-1946. London: Conway Maritime Press, 2001.
• Fish, John Perry. Unfinished Voyages: A Chronology of Shipwrecks in the Northeastern United States. Orleans, MA: Lower Cape Publishing, 1989.
• Gardiner, Robert. Conway’s All the World’s Fighting Ships, 1860-1905. London: Conway Maritime Press, 1979.
• Gardiner, Robert, and Stephen Chumbley. Conway’s All the World’s Fighting Ships, 1947-1995. London: Conway Maritime Press, 1995.
• Gordon, Arthur. The Mobil Book of Ships: A Century at Sea. London: Mobil Shipping Co., 1991.
• Gwyn, Julian. Ashore and Afloat: the British Navy and the Halifax Naval Yard Before 1820. Ottawa, Ontario: University of Ottawa Press, 2004.
• Halpern, Paul G. Naval History of World War I. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2012.
• Hepper, David J. British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650-1859. Rotherfield, UK: Jean Boudriot Publications, 1994.
• Kennedy, Don H. Ship Names: Origins and Usages During 45 Centuries. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia for the Mariner’s Museum, 1974.
• Lavery, Brian. All Hands: The Lower Deck of the Royal Navy Since 1939 to the Present Day. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2012.
• Lloyd’s of London. Lloyd’s War Losses: The First World War: Casualties to Shipping Through Enemy Causes, 1914-1918. London: Lloyd’s of London Press, 1990.
• Lumby, E.W.R. Policy and Operations in the Mediterranean, 1912-14 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 115). London: Navy Records Society, 1970.
• Marx, Robert F. Shipwrecks of the Western Hemisphere, 1492-1825. New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1975.
• Mitchell-Cook, Amy. A Sea of Misadventures: Shipwreck and Survival in Early America. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2013.
• Myers, Robert C. Lost on the Lakes: Shipwrecks of Berrien County, Michigan. Berrien Springs, MI: Andrews University Press, 2003.
• Olson, William Robert. Lion of the China Sea: A History of the Eastern and Australian Steamship Company Limited (Incorporated in England). Sydney: P & O Australia Ltd., 1976.
• Paterson, Alan J.S. Classic Scottish Paddle Steamers. Newton Abbot, UK: David & Charles, 1982.
• Plowman, Peter. Australian Cruise Ships. Kenthurst, NSW: Rosenberg Publishing, 2007.
• Plowman, Peter. Coast to Coast: the Great Australian Coastal Liners. Dural, NSW: Rosenberg Publishing, 2007.
• Plowman, Peter. Migrant Ships to Australia and New Zealand: 1900-1939. Wellington, NZ: Rosenberg Publishing, in association with transpress NZ, 2009.
• Plowman, Peter. Wanganella and the Australian Trans-Tasman liners. Wellington, NZ: Rosenberg Publishing, in association with transpress NZ, 2009.
• Preston, Antony. Royal Navy Submarine Service: A Centennial History. London: Conway Maritime, 2001.
• Punch, Terrence M. Erin’s Sons: Irish Arrivals in Atlantic Canada, 1761-1853, Vol.2. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Pub. Co., 2009.
• Rimington, Critchell. Merchant Fleets: A Survey of the Merchant Navies of the World. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1944.
• Satchell, Alister. Running the Gauntlet: How Three Great Liners Carried a Million Men to War, 1942-1945. London: Chatham, 2001.
• Shipwrecks of the Thunder Bay Region. Alpena, MI: National Ocean Service, 2017.
• Skogan, John Kristen, and Arne Olav Brundtland. Soviet Seapower in Northern Waters: Facts, Motivation, Impact and Responses. New York: St. Martins Press, 1990.
• Still, William N. Crisis at Sea: the United States Navy in European Waters in World War I. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2006.
• Thompson, Mark L. Graveyard of the Lakes. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2000.
• Tracy, Nicholas. The Naval Chronicle: The Contemporary Record of the Royal Navy at War (Volumes 1-5: 1793-1815). London: Chatham Publishing, 1999.
• Trevenen, James, and Christopher Lloyd. A Memoir of James Trevenen (Navy Records Society, Vol. 101). London: Navy Records Society, 1959.
• van Duivenvoorde, Wendy, with Jeremy Green. Dutch East India Company Shipbuilding: The Archaeological Study of Batavia and Other Seventeenth-century VOC Ships. College Station, Texas: Texas A & M University Press, 2015.
• Vernon, Edward, and Bryan Ranft. The Vernon Papers (Navy Records Society, Vol. 99). London: Navy Records Society, 1958.

As always, send a note to comments (at) shipindex (dot) org if you have titles you think we should add!

It’s been over six weeks since I last posted a list of recently-added content, so of course there’s tons more waiting to be listed here. In mid-May, the ShipIndex team met up in Washington, DC, and visited the Library of Congress. We collected indexes to a ton of titles that we hadn’t found elsewhere, and we’ve processed some of those titles already. A lot more are still waiting to go through the whole process, and will be added over the next few months.

As always, we welcome recommendations and suggestions for titles that should be added to the ShipIndex database.

The following content has been added to the ShipIndex.org database since my last update:

• Anderson, R.C. Journals and Narratives of the Third Dutch War (Navy Records Society, Vol. 86). London: Navy Records Society, 1946.
• Barnaby, K.C. Some Ship Disasters and Their Causes. London: Hutchinson, 1968.
• Barrett, Harry B., and C.F. Coons. Alligators of the North: The Story of the West & Peachey Steam Warping Tugs. Toronto: Natural Heritage Books, 2010.
• Belyk, Robert C. Great Shipwrecks of the Pacific Coast. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2001.
• Bockstoce, John R. . Whales, Ice, and Men: The History of Whaling in the Western Arctic. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1995.
• Boteler, John Harvey, and David Bonner-Smith. Recollections of My Sea Life from 1808 to 1830 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 82). London: Navy Records Society, 1942.
• Bromley, J.S. The Manning of the Royal Navy: Selected Public Pamphlets, 1693-1873 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 119). London: Navy Records Society, 1974.
• Brown, David G. White Hurricane: A Great Lakes November Gale and America’s Deadliest Maritime Disaster. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004.
• Cohn, Arthur B. Lake Champlain’s Sailing Canal Boats: An Illustrated Journey from Burlington Bay to the Hudson River. Basin Harbor, VT: Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, 2003.
• de Saumarez, James, and A.N. Ryan. The Saumarez Papers: Selections from the Baltic Correspondence of Vice-Admiral Sir James Saumarez , 1808-1812 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 110). London: Navy Records Society, 1968.
• Dow, George Francis. Slave Ships and Slaving (Marine Research Society Publication, No. 15). Cambridge, MD: Cornell Maritime Press, 1927.
• Elphinstone, George Keith, and Christopher Lloyd. The Keith Papers, Volume II (Navy Records Society, Vol. 90). London: Navy Records Society, 1950.
• Faulkner, Marcus. The Great War at Sea: A Naval Atlas 1914-1919. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing, 2015.
• Florida, Key West Passenger Lists, 1898-1945 (Findmypast). London: Findmypast, 2019.
• Halpern, Paul G. Mediterranean Fleet, 1930-1939 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 163). New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group for the Navy Records Society, 2016.
• Hamburg, Germany Emigrants (Findmypast). London: Findmypast, 2019.
• Hancock, H.E., and L. Cope Cornford. Semper Fidelis: The Saga of The Navies (1924-1948): Being an Account of the Services of the Ships and Men of the General Steam Navigation Company, Limited, in Peace and War Through the Period 1942-1948. London: General Steam Navigation Co., 1949.
• Hatch, Gardner N., and Destroyer Escort Sailors Association. Trim, but Deadly (Volume II). Paducah, KY: Turner Publishing Co., 1987.
• Hawke, Edward, and Ruddock F. MacKay. The Hawke Papers: A Selection, 1743-1771 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 129). Aldershot, UK: Scolar Press for the Navy Records Society, 1990.
• Kemble, John Haskell. The Book of the Anchor Line: An Outline of the Company’s Activities and Progress from its Inception in 1852 until the End of 1931. London: Burrow, 1932.
• Keyes, Roger, and Paul G. Halpern. The Keyes Papers: Selections from the Private and Official Correspondence of Admiral of the Fleet Baron Keyes of Zeebrugge, Vol. 1 (Navy Records Society Vol. 117). London: Navy Records Society, 1972.
• Mansfield, J.B. History of the Great Lakes (Volume I). Cleveland, OH: Freshwater Press, 1972.
• Massachusetts, Boston Crew Lists, 1917-1943 (Findmypast). London: Findmypast, 2019.
• Morriss, Roger, and Richard C. Saxby. The Channel Fleet and the Blockade of Brest 1793-1801 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 141). Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2001.
• Mozolak, John. New York Ships to Foreign Ports, 1939-1945: A Report of Over 5,000 Ships Sailing from New York. New Jersey: Kenneth Janda.
• Nugent, Frank. Seek the Frozen Lands: Irish Polar Explorers 1740 – 1922. Cork, Ireland: The Collins Press, 2013.
• Pepys, Samuel, and E. Chappell. The Tangier Papers of Samuel Pepys (Navy Records Society, Vol. 73). London: Navy Records Society, 1935.
• Prison Ship (Hulk) Registers (Findmypast). London: Findmypast, 2019.
• Queensland Ship Deserters 1862-1911 (Findmypast). London: Findmypast, 2019.
• Rose, Lisle A. Power at Sea, Volume 1: The Age of Navalism, 1890-1918. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2007.
• Rose, Lisle A. Power at Sea, Volume 2: The Breaking Storm, 1919-1945. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2006.
• Rose, Lisle A. Power at Sea, Volume 3: A Violent Peace, 1946-2006. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2007.
• Roskill, S. W. . Documents Relating to the Naval Air Service, Volume I (Navy Records Society, Vol. 113). London: Navy Records Society, 1969.
• Sandwich, Edward Montagu, Earl of, and R.C. Anderson. The Journal of Edward Montagu, First Earl of Sandwich, 1659-1665 (Navy Record Society, Vol. 64). London: Navy Records Society, 1929.
• Sheard, Bradley. Lost Voyages: Two Centuries of Shipwrecks in the Approaches to New York. New York: Aqua Quest Publications, 1998.
• Simpson, Michael. Anglo-American Naval Relations, 1917-1919 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 130). Aldershot, UK: Scolar Press for the Navy Records Society, 1991.
• Snow, Richard F. A Measureless Peril: America in the Fight for the Atlantic, the Longest Battle of World War II. New York: Scribner, 2010.
• South Australia, Passenger Lists 1847-1886 (Findmypast). London: Findmypast, 2019.
• Whipple, A.B.C. , and G.A. Little. Tall Ships and Great Captains: A Narrative of Famous Sailing Ships through the Ages and the Courageous Men who Sailed, Fought or Raced them Across the Seas. New York: Harper, 1960.
• Wiggins, Melanie. Torpedoes in the Gulf: Galveston and the U-boats, 1942-1943. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2004.
• Williams, Neville J. The Maritime Trade in the East Anglian Ports, 1550-1590. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988.
• Yanda, Wayne. Murals on the High Seas.  Wayne Yanda, 2019.
• Young, Ron. The Comprehensive Guide to Shipwrecks of the North East Coast, Volume I: 1740 – 1917. Stroud, UK: Tempus Publishing Group Ltd., 2000.
• Young, Ron. The Comprehensive Guide to Shipwrecks of the North East Coast, Volume 2: 1918 – 2000. Stroud, UK: Tempus Publishing Group Ltd., 2001.

As mentioned above, lots more is still to come!

I’m kind of astounded by the amount of new content we’re adding here, but here comes another list. There’s some new stuff in this list — through some work with the folks at Findmypast, the genealogy research company, we’re creating links to the passenger and crew lists that are available on that site. If you’re already a subscriber to Findmypast, you’ll be able to get it to the resource easily. If you’re not,  you might want to consider joining, to take a look at what you’ll find there. Of course, we can’t guarantee how much or what sort of information will be in the Findmypast databases, but it might be worth an investigation. You just never know what you’ll find, and that’s really the whole point of ShipIndex.org. More Findmypast content will be coming soon, as will many more monographs, and even some journal indexes that I found recently.

Without further ado, here’s what’s been added in the past few weeks:

• Biscoe, Mark Wyman. “No pluckier set of men anywhere”: The Story of Ships and Men in Damariscotta and Newcastle, Maine. Newcastle, ME: M. W. Biscoe, 1994.
• Bockstoce, John R., and American Philosophical Society. The Opening of the Maritime Fur Trade at Bering Strait: Americans and Russians Meet the Kanjghigmiut in Kotzebue Sound. Philadelphia, PA: American Philosophical Society, 2005.
• Bockstoce, John R., William Barr, and Bill Nelson. White Fox and Icy Seas in the Western Arctic: The Fur Trade, Transportation, and Change in the Early Twentieth Century. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018.
• Butler, Nathaniel, ed. by W. G. Perrin. Boteler’s Dialogues (Navy Records Society, Vol. 65). London: Navy Records Society, 1929.
• Byng, Pattee, and J.L. Cranmer-Byng. Pattee Byng’s Journal, 1718-1730 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 88). London: Navy Records Society, 1950.
• Callender, Geoffrey. The Naval Side of British History. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1924.
• Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce, and Graham Easton Langmuir. West Coast Steamers.  Prescot Stephenson, 1966.
• Edwards, Bernard. The Twilight of the U-boats. Barnsley, UK: Leo Cooper Ltd., 2004.
• Elphinstone, George Keith, and Christopher Lloyd. The Keith Papers, Volume 3 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 96). London: Navy Records Society, 1955.
• Faulkner, Marcus, Andrew D. Lambert, and Peter Wilkinson. War at Sea: A Naval Atlas, 1939-1945. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2012.
• Findmypast collections:
  • 1881 British Census, Crew and Passengers On Ships Arriving In New South Wales (Findmypast). London: Findmypast, 2019.
  • Australia Convict Ships 1786-1849 (Findmypast). London: Findmypast, 2019.
  • Boston Passenger Lists 1846-1851 (Findmypast). London: Findmypast, 2019.
  • Queensland Customs House Shipping 1852-1885: Passengers and Crew (Findmypast). London: Findmypast, 2019.
  • WWI Ships Lost at Sea, 1914-1919 (Findmypast). London: Findmypast, 2019.
• Grove, Eric J. The Defeat of the Enemy Attack Upon Shipping, 1939-1945 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 137). Aldershot, Hants., UK: Aldershot for the Navy Records Society,1998.
• Gwyn, Julian, and Sir Peter Warren. The Royal Navy and North America: The Warren Papers, 1736-1752 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 118). London: Navy Records Society, 1973.
• Harbron, John D. Communist Ships and Shipping. New York: Praeger, 1963.
• Jordan, David. Wolfpack: The U-boat War and the Allied Counter-attack, 1939-1945. Staplehurst, UK: Spellmount Ltd, 2002.
• Lambert, Nicholas A. The Submarine Service, 1900-1918 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 142). Aldershot: Ashgate for the Navy Records Society, 2001.
• MacAlpine, Richard S., Charles R. Mitchell. Steamboats on Keuka Lake: Penn Yan, Hammondsport and the Heart of the Finger Lakes. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2015.
• Memorials & Monuments in Portsmouth. Portsmouth, UK: Portsmouth City Council, 2002-2019.
• Miller, Nathan. Broadsides: The Age of Fighting Sail, 1775-1815. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2001.
• National Small Boat Register. Falmouth, Cornwall: National Maritime Museum, Cornwall.
• NOAA History: NOAA Coast and Geodetic Ships. Silver Spring, MD: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), NOAA Central Library, 2006.
• Putnam, George Granville. Salem Vessels and Their Voyages (Series I). Salem, MA: The Essex Institute, 1924.
• Putnam, George Granville. Salem Vessels and Their Voyages (Series II). Salem, MA: The Essex Institute, 1924.
• Putnam, George Granville. Salem Vessels and Their Voyages (Series III). Salem, MA: The Essex Institute, 1925.
• Putnam, George Granville. Salem Vessels and Their Voyages (Series IV). Salem, MA: The Essex Institute, 1930.
• Reynolds, Clark G. The Fast Carriers: the Forging of an Air Navy. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968.
• Rowbotham, Thomas Robert. The Naval Brigades in the Indian Mutiny, 1857-1858 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 87). London: Navy Records Society, 1947.
• Seligmann, Matthew S. Naval Intelligence from Germany: The Reports of the British Naval Attachés in Berlin, 1906-1914 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 152). Aldershot, Hants, and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate for Navy Records Society, 2007.
• Thursfield, H. G. Five Naval Journals: 1789-1817 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 91). London: Navy Records Society, 1951.

More files will be uploaded soon, and many more are being processed. I’m working on the Roebuck Society volumes, which will be incredibly valuable for researchers interested in early Australian and New Zealand history. We now have nearly all Navy Records Society volumes in the database. In early May, we venture to the Library of Congress, to collect still more content! Now’s the time to tell me about other titles you’d like to see added — send us a note at comments (at) shipindex (dot) org.

I cannot believe how much additional content we’ve gotten into the database in the last several weeks. Here’s a list of content added since my last post:

• Gordon, Malcolm R. From Chusan to Sea Princess: The Australian Services of the P & O and Orient Lines. North Sydney, NSW: George Allen & Unwin Australia Pty, 1985.
• Graves, Donald E. In Peril on the Sea: The Royal Canadian Navy and the Battle of the Atlantic. Toronto: R. Brass Studios for the Canadian Naval Memorial Trust, 2003.
• Hepper, David J. British Warship Losses in the Ironclad Era, 1860-1919. London: Chatham Publishing, 2006.
• James, Alan, Carlos Alfaro Zaforteza, and Malcolm H. Murfett. European Navies and the Conduct of War. New York: Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
• Johnson, Robert Erwin. Guardians of the Sea: History of the United States Coast Guard, 1915 to the Present. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1989.
• Jones, Colin. Australian Colonial Navies. Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1986.
• Kerr, George Fleming. Business in Great Waters: The War History of the P. & O. (Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company), 1939-1945. London:Faber and Faber Ltd., 1951.
• Knoblock, Glenn A. The American Clipper Ship, 1845-1920: A Comprehensive History, with a List of Builders and Their Ships. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Inc., 2014.
• Lancour, Harold. A Bibliography of Ship Passenger Lists, 1538-1825: Being a Guide to Published Lists of Early Immigrants to North America. New York:New York Public Library, 1978.
• Latham, Tim. Ashburner Schooners: The Story of the First Shipbuilders of Barrow-in-Furness. Manchester, UK: Ready Rhino, 1991.
• Laughton, L. G. Carr. Old Ship Figure-heads & Sterns: With what are Associated Galleries, Hanging-pieces, Catheads and Divers Other Matters that Concern the Grace and Countenance of Old Sailing-ships. Ottawa, Ontario: Algrove Publishing, 2006.
• Lawrence, Matthew S., Deborah Marx, John Galluzzo. Shipwrecks of Stellwagen Bank: Disaster in New England’s National Marine Sanctuary. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2015.
• Lingwood, John. SD 14: The Great British Shipbuilding Success Story. Kendal: The World Ship Society, 1976.
• McLellan, Roderick Scott. Anchor Line, 1856-1956. Glasgow: Anchor Line Limited, 1956.
• Memorials & Monuments in Portsmouth. Portsmouth, UK: Portsmouth City Council, 2002-2019. 
• Miller, William H., Anthony Cooke, and Maruzio Eliseo. Liners of the Golden Age: A Pictorial History of Passenger Ships in the 1930s. London: Carmania Press, 2005.
• Mitchell, W. H. , L. A. Sawyer. Sailing Ship to Supertanker: the Hundred-Year Story of British Esso and its Ships. Lavenham, Suffolk: Lavenham: Terence Dalton, 1987.
• Mollica, Anthony S., Jr. Boats of the Antique Boat Museum: Highlights of the Watercraft Collection. Clayton, NY: Antique Boat Museum, 2006.
• Mountevans, Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans. War Service of the Merchant Navy: A Record of the Participation of the Men and Ships of Huddart Parker Ltd. Melbourne: Huddart Parker Ltd, 1951
• National Small Boat Register. Falmouth, Cornwall: National Maritime Museum, Cornwall.
• Standard Oil Company. Ships of the Esso Fleet in World War II. New York: Standard Oil Company, 1946.
• Stanton, Samuel Ward. Stanton’s American Steam Vessels: The Classic Illustrations. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, Inc., 2002.
• Symonds, Craig. World War II at Sea: A Global History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
• Tepper, Michael. New World Immigrants: A Consolidation of Ship Passenger Lists and Associated Data from Periodical Literature, Volume I. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1979.
• Tepper, Michael. New World Immigrants: A Consolidation of Ship Passenger Lists and Associated Data from Periodical Literature, Volume II. Baltimore, MD: Gealogical Publishing Co., 1979.
• Underhill, Harold A. Sail Training and Cadet Ships. Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson, Ltd, 1956.
• Waters, Sydney David. Ordeal by Sea: The New Zealand Shipping Company in the Second World War, 1939-1945. London: New Zealand Shipping Company, 1949.
• Winfield, Rif. British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1817-1863: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Seaforth Publishing, 2014.

As always, lots more will follow soon. And always feel free to let us know if you have titles  you think we should add. Send it to comments (at) shipindex (dot) org.

It just keeps coming; I think we’ve added content from nearly 200 titles in the past six months or so. As of today, the full database contains “3,316,336 citations to ships in 729 resources”, and I know a lot more is waiting to be loaded. And, I’m planning trips to libraries this weekend, and to the Library of Congress in May, to collect still more.

Here’s what’s been added in the past two weeks:

• Appleyard, H.S. The Constantine Group. Kendal: World Ship Society, 1983.
• Bagnasco, Erminio, Augusto de Toro. The Littorio Class: Italy’s Last and Largest Battleships 1937-1948. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing, 2011.
• Bender, James, J. D. Davies. Dutch Warships in the Age of Sail, 1600-1714: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing, 2014.
• Bockstoce, John R. Furs and Frontiers in the Far North : the Contest Among Native and Foreign Nations for the Bering Strait Fur Trade. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010.
• Busch, John Laurence. Steam Coffin: Captain Moses Rogers and the Steamship Savannah Break the Barrier. New Canaan, CT: Hodos Historia, 2010.
• Bushell, T. A. Eight Bells: Royal Mail Lines War Story, 1939-1945. London: London Trade and Travel, 1950.
• Cassady, Michael, Sylvia Nimmo. New York Passenger Arrivals, 1849-1868: Passenger Lists. Papillion, Nebraska: Sylvia Nimmo, 1983.
• Davidson, A. S. . Marine Art and Liverpool: Painters, Places and Flag Codes, 1760-1960. Albrighton, Wolverhampton: Waine Research, 1986.
• Dow, George Francis. Whale Ships and Whaling: a Pictorial History with and Account of the Whale Fishery in Colonial Times. Salem, MA: Marine Research Society, 1925.
• Fildes, R. D. The Ships that Serve Australia and New Zealand, Volume One: Australian and New Zealand Flag Vessels. Sydney, NSW: Searail Productions, 1983.
• Gillett, Ross. Australian Ships: Over Two Centuries of Our Maritime Heritage. French’s Forest, NSW: Chils & Associates, 1989.
• National Historic Ships UK: National Register of Historic Vessels. London: National Historic Ships, 2018.
• Rogers, Henry J. Rogers’ Marine Telegraphic List of Merchant Vessels: Of 150 Tons and Upward, Employed in the Commerce of the United States. New York: E. & G.W. Blunt, 1855.

So, there are good chances to get to the rare and unusual books that haven’t yet been added to the database. Let us know if you know of a title that should be added — comments (at) shipindex (dot) org.

In another data update, we’ve added full-text page links for all of the Navy Records Society volumes that are available through HathiTrust, meaning all pre-1924 volumes. Some links might not work if you’re accessing HathiTrust from a country that has different copyright laws, but hopefully most people will  now have more full-text access from home.

We’re now moving to adding a bunch of online content. Here’s a list of online (and some print) resources that have been added in the past three weeks:

• Association of Mediterranean Maritime Museums. Census of Traditional and Historical Boats of the Mediterranean. Barcelona: Association of Mediterranean Maritime Museums, 2014.
• Goossens, Reuben. ssMaritime.com. ssMaritime.com, 2019.
• Hadland, Harvey, and Bob Mackreth. Fish Tugs of the Greatest Lake: Bayfield, Wisconsin. 2002 – 2016.
• Marsden, Reginald Godfrey. Documents Relating to Law and Custom of the Sea, Vol. II: A.D. 1649-1767 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 50). London: Navy Records Society, 1916.
• Schultz, Charles R. Inventory of the Logbooks and Journals in the G.W. Blunt White Library (G.W. Blunt Library No. 4). Mystic, Conn.: Marine Historical Association for the G.W. Blunt Library, 1965.
• Schultz, Charles R., Mystic Seaport Library. Inventory of the Mallory Family Papers 1808 – 1958. Mystic, Conn.: Mystic Seaport Library, Marine Historical Association, Inc., 1964.
• UK Diving: Wreck List. Personal Print Ltd, 2006?.
• Visser, Auke. Auke Visser’s International Super Tankers : Oil Bulk Ore Vessels. Auke Visser’s International Super Tankers, 2017.
• Visser, Auke. Auke Visser’s International Super Tankers: Floating Platform and Storage Offshore Units. Auke Visser’s International Super Tankers, 2017.
• Visser, Auke. Auke Visser’s International Super Tankers: Gas Carriers. Auke Visser’s International Super Tankers, 2017.
• Visser, Auke. Auke Visser’s International Super Tankers: Ultra Large Crude Carriers (ULCC) . Auke Visser’s International Super Tankers, 2017.
• Visser, Auke. Auke Visser’s International Super Tankers: Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCC). Auke Visser’s International Super Tankers, 2017.
• Watson, Alan. The Medusa Trust: Preserving Medusa for Future Generations. Elstead, Surrey, UK: The Medusa Trust.

We also updated an online site that moved; unfortunately, this happens often. We don’t always hear about these URL changes, so if you see something that doesn’t work, please do let us know. And if you know of some other online resources that should be added to ShipIndex.org, so people know they mention specific ships, please let us know at comments (at) shipindex (dot) org.